Facebook to Add More Computing Power with Texas Data Center

The collaborators invited local officials to celebrate their “memorandum of understanding” in an hourlong news media briefing at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.

UNTHSC includes the 45-year-old Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, which trains and graduates around 230 physicians a year. ” “According to Abbott Texas leads the nation in wind energy and that fact, “…was one of the pivotal reasons that Facebook chose this location for this project”.

The project came together quickly once the idea was broached to TCU less than four months ago, Boschini said.

This is a significant milestone for Fort Worth.

Plans call for students to submit applications in 2017.

School leaders touted the plan as beneficial to the schools and the state. The first class will attend the school in the fall semester of 2018.

By establishing a new M.D. program, Williams said it will help the osteopathic students instead of drive competition.

“It says to the community that we’re committed to healthcare”. A dean will be jointly hired and report to the provosts at both universities. A medical degree program was necessary for UNTHSC to fulfill that strategy and get the next generation of doctors accustomed to practicing outside of traditional silos, he said.

Victor J. Boschini Jr., TCU’s chancellor, was enthusiastic about his school’s commitment to creating “one of the premier MD schools” in the country. The Fort Worth center will help Facebook with its mission to connect the world and “we want to connect the next five billion” from here, he said.

The first of three 250,000-square-foot buildings, located at the northeast corner of Park Vista Boulevard and Texas 170, is expected to be up and running by the end of 2016.

Some areas dipped far lower, and not just in rural swaths: Southeast Dallas has just 54 physicians per 100,000 residents, while southwest Dallas has 36.

It would be the second medical school in DFW to offer a M.D. degree. “TCU and UNT Health Science Center are doing their part to address the shortage of doctors we’ve seen in Texas and in the United States”.

“Data centers are great opportunities for the city to grow for the technology piece”, Mayor Betsy Price said.